Stock prices, news and economic fluctuations
By: Paul Beaudry, Franck Portier.
Contributors: Portier, Franck.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10548; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10548.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Stocks -- Prices.; Business cycles.; Industrial productivity.
Description: "In this paper we show that the joint behavior of stock prices and TFP favors a view of business cycles driven largely by a shock that does not affect productivity in the short run -- and therefore does not look like a standard technology shock -- but affects productivity with substantial delay -- and therefore does not look like a monetary shock.  One structural interpretation we suggest for this shock is that it represents news about future technological opportunities which is first captured in stock prices.  We show that this shock causes a boom in consumption, investment and hours worked that precede productivity growth by a few years.  Moreover, we show that this shock explains about 50\% of business cycle fluctuations"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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